EMAIL: kto@eleceng.adelaide.edu.au NAME: Kiet To TOPIC: Science Fiction COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. RENDERER USED: Window POV-Ray 3.0 TOOLS USED: Fractint 19.2, HF-Lab 0.8 RENDER TIME: 34 mins 57 sec HARDWARE USED: Cyrix 6x86-100Mhz IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A city ("more like a town") located somewhere in a distance star system on a planet similar to earth. I started this picture three days ago (before the end of the competition). So I didn't have very much time to do anything great. It's not as complete as how I imagined it to be but then again, it more then what I thought I could do in that short time. *Sigh* Time just past when you are have fun. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: As with the last picture, my main modeller was a piece of paper, a pencil, a good editor and as much imagination that I could pull out of overworked brain. This was also the first time I have used WinPov (MS-DOS in previous trace) and I found that it had a brilliant interface. Don't know how I ever lived without it. The first thing I worked on was the background seen, this involved pulling out some of my old never-completed-povray-scene file and extracting a few bits such as the sky and moon. The starfield I generated again using Fractint to get a more dense star-map the previous used. Next I when in search for a good tool to create heightfield mountains. HF-LAB prove to be excellent (highly recommended). After a day's night fiddling with this to get two heightfields (one for background and one for foreground), I started on the trees. I just created some basic trees (made up of a few primitives) and placed them randomly in a group. Next was the individual building (six in all) and then the star ship (only had time to create two only). Well, I don't have very much time till the deadline so I think I'll stop here. I won't include the source file here this time since I don't have time to organise it. So, if you are interested, please contact me (via email) and I'll sent it to you. K.T.